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Just posted this for a bit of fun . Post your random Fishing related photos

Confidence is everything in carp angling mate. If you believe in yourself you can make it happen. When it comes to approach i.e. tactics and strategy, just apply logic. It's too easy to mess your head up with weird and wonderful ideas when normally it's the very basics that catch the fish. A half decent bait on a half decent rig in the right place at the right time will do the job. It's my 2nd fave. My fave being "it only takes one bite", which also rings true time and time again.

Mind you perhaps the biggest and most significant saving has been my own! A new eating plan and exercise has resulted in a near 2 stone weight loss!

My last session before lockdown. 😢

This. The way I see it if you find fish and do everything as best you can, sooner or later you'll catch something. After all, every dog has his day 😂

I'd say live bait too but most places ban it and a lot of anglers don't like doing it so I don't really mention it. Plus when using prawns I've had carp to 20 plus and some nice tench so it makes it great fun on the float rod.

Well, just replaced my elastics with cable ties as per the recommendations in the Carpfeed article. Total weight saving of 1.5lb and a not inconsiderable volume of material. Nice and firm but still comfy with the memory foam base. Now to source a smaller/lighter pillow to cut down weight a little further👍

Travelling light...

The avatar one the only fishing related one I have on my tablet this is one of the lakes on the complex that had the toadless leather in it from terrys book

Agree wholeheartedly with Yonny.

Here is enough gear , food and Bait for 4 Days . Anyone else care to share.

Yes we did mainly codling around 3lb good eating size. 5 lug with a whipped on crab stick ... but lug and razor were always the best. We used to go West Wales on the biggest tides of the year to get the razor’s at low tide.

Except that before The Lockdown Spurs weren't doing anything , we can't end up below Arsenal , can we ? 😱.

My first thought was some git has nicked his wheels ....that is light tho 👍

blooming big heavy Benchmark X! With my advancing years the one thing I can’t manage without is a large bedchair🥴. The weight saving issue is quite addictive though, isn’t it!? I’ve swopped Stainless for Jag Black. Switched barrow bags and rod holdalls for small ruck sack and quiver. The Neville’s are smaller/lighter than the old Fox’s. I’ve been ruthless with terminal tackle, got a smaller box. Ditched the big rig board and removed loads of ‘just in case’ items too👍

brilliant Yonny

This time away has made me realise what I need to do this year, I have the plan and am ready to rock, tbh i got lucky catching one first time out so it's given me the green light to fish how I want and believe it should work out, OK, I like the old spurs Motto to dare is to do 😁

Every dog has his day is my fave fishing quote ........ probably because it’s true ! 😬

Thats good then they do make good reading 👍 I just find it very easy to lose confidence in my approach, like now I've got a plan and I plan to stick with it, I am confident now as it seems to be working, but I wonder how I would react in that situation, I guess we will see 😁

It was just so weedy, these things happen. Three of those losses were hook pulls and one was an altercation with my other rods. Of course I was racking my brain after 4 on the trot but I was using hinge rigs which are difficult to beat in weedy situations imo. I ended up changing nothing and although I did lose one more fish later that year, what I landed more than made up for it as you will see in due course😀

I'd be happy with that one stunner again, did you work out what was causing the hook pulls? And did you change anything? The reason I ask is because I probably would have gone mental and changed everything perhaps needlessly 😁🤣

I just think on his 1,999,999th cast he got the poor blood y fish on the head and it came in for some TLC 😂😂😬😎🎣

1; Food- 2; tackle - 3; Supa Brolly- 4; Rod bag- 5; Bait- 6; Particle- 7; Sleep system 8;- Unhooking mat 9; Water ,Milk ,Clothes, Pillow ect- 10; Bed chair seat- 12; Buzzers and pod- 13;- Table So pretty all the essentials items you'll need , but the barrow means their are no weight restrictions .

No i was still to young to be In that video they were big kids to me 😁

A " normal " person would have just given up , that Yonny is a persistent devil isn't he . This would be why he catches the big fish , doesn't know when he's beaten , and none of that " that's more or less in the right place , and / or probably presented o.k. " . 😁

So looking back at my catch reports it reminds me that it doesn't always go to plan. Over the course of that July I have an unforgivable 4 losses on the trot as the weed goes mental. I've not bothered pasting those reports here so we skip to the session where it starts to come good again. Only a small fish here but a very cool looking one imo. The report is short and reading it back, I should probs have had more this weekend. Fished the syndi this weekend. Found a few carp in a particularly weedy swim. Spent a while scaring them away with about a million casts trying to hit these tiny, tiny spots but some of them stayed as I had a couple of bites on Saturday morning. The first @ 06:00 I lost to a hook pull (4th loss on the trot 😣) but 09:30 saw a 24.08 lb mirror grace the net . Not the biggest but it was a proper minter, classically shaped with burnt auburn flanks, a black head and loads of tiny pin head scales dotted all over the place. Saturday night saw another 2 million casts getting the rods on these tiny spots but it was looking fantastic coming into bite time; liners galore from 03:00 onwards. Unfortunately with no cloud in the sky and the brightest of sunshine 06:00 saw all activity stop (where I was expecting the bites to start) and by 08:00 they were drifting about on the top in the shallow bays. So a tricky weekend tbh but I'm just happy to get a fish on the bank after a truly disastrous run of losses. I'm back next weekend so hopefully my new found luck will continue.

Well there you are , Tree , it's unanimous then . 😁